The 2014 construction season isn’t over yet, and already area residents may want to be aware of what’s in store for the 2015 construction season.
The Ministry of Transportation of Ontario is planning to rehabilitate eight overpass structures in SDG from 2015 to 2018, and two of those projects could have a significant impact on area drivers and residents here in South Dundas.
Late last month, MTO officials and SDG Counties staff met to review and discuss the work as the designers are at the start of the detailed design process.
At the September 15, Counties council meeting, counties engineer Ben de Haan, provided a key information report regarding those projects.
Although the information is still fairly preliminary, de Haan reported that the County Road 8 (Church Road) overpass is scheduled for rehabilitation. That project would be done using traditional methods and would likely mean the structure would be reduced to one lane of traffic over the 2015 and 2016 construction seasons.
The other overpass project slated to take place in South Dundas, is the complete replacement of the County Road 16 (Brinston Road) overpass.
That project is likely to involve rapid demolition, to minimize the impact on 401 traffic, but that means the MTO is considering complete closure and detour of County Road 16 for an entire construction season (April through December).
Brinston Road is a busy local roadway with annual average daily traffic of about 1,100 vehicles per day.
Should this closure take place, all those vehicles will be detoured, likely to County Roads 40, 1 and 2.
The MTO has requested feedback from SDG officials and staff are preparing a list of formal comments for the MTO.
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